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We present Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 slitless grism spectroscopy of 28 emission-line galaxies at z~2, in the GOODS-S region of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). The high…

The James Webb Space Telescope will provide observational capabilities that far exceed those of current ground- or space-based instrumentation. In particular, the NIRSpec instrument will take highly sensitive spectroscopic data for hundreds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Michael V. Maseda , Marijn Franx , Jacopo Chevallard , Emma Curtis-Lake

We present predictions for high redshift ($z=2-10$) galaxy populations based on the IllustrisTNG simulation suite and a full Monte Carlo dust radiative transfer post-processing. Specifically, we discuss the ${\rm H}_{\alpha}$ and ${\rm…

With a total integration time of 168 hours and a narrowband (NB) filter tuned to Lyman alpha at z = 8.8, the UltraVISTA survey has set out to find some of the most distant galaxies, on the verge of the Epoch of Reionization. Previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Peter Laursen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Bo Milvang-Jensen , Johan P. U. Fynbo , Alexei O. Razoumov

We use narrowband imaging (FWHM = 70 A) to select a sample of emission line galaxies between 0.20 <~ z <~ 1.22 in two fields covering 0.5 sq. deg. We use spectroscopic follow-up to select a sub-sample of Halpha emitting galaxies at z ~ 0.24…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 Eduard Westra , D. Heath Jones

We describe results of a narrow band search for ultra-strong emission line galaxies (USELs) with EW(H beta) > 30 A. 542 candidate galaxies are found in a half square degree survey using two ~100 Angstrom 8150 A and 9140 A filters with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuko Kakazu , Lennox L. Cowie , Esther M. Hu

We present measurements of star formation rates (SFRs) for dwarf galaxies (M*~10^8.5 Msun ) at z~1 using near-infrared slitless spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) by targetting and measuring the luminosity of the H{\alpha}…

We present deep narrow-band (lambda = 5390 Angstroms, delta lambda = 77 Angstroms) and multi-color observations of the Hubble Deep Field and the Hawaii Deep Field SSA22 obtained with the LRIS instrument at the Keck II 10-m telescope. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lennox L. Cowie , Esther M. Hu

We present the first spectroscopic measurements of the [OIII] 5007 A line in two z ~ 3.1 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) using the new near-infrared instrument LUCIFER1 on the 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). We also describe the…

We make use of our 'minimal' cold interstellar medium (ISM) emission line model that predicts the molecular and atomic line emission per unit dense, star-forming gas mass (Geach & Papadopoulos 2012; Paper I) to examine the utility of key…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Padelis P. Papadopoulos , James E. Geach

We quantify the distribution of [OIII]+H$\beta$ line strengths at z$\simeq$7 using a sample of 20 bright (M$_{\mathrm{UV}}$ $\lesssim$ $-$21) galaxies. We select these systems over wide-area fields (2.3 deg$^2$ total) using a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Ryan Endsley , Daniel P. Stark , Jacopo Chevallard , Stéphane Charlot

We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey of extended [OIII] emission for a sample of 60 Seyfert galaxies (22 Seyfert 1's and 38 Seyfert 2's), selected based on their far infrared properties. The observations for 42 of these galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. R. Schmitt , J. L. Donley , R. R. J. Antonucci , J. B. Hutchings , A. L. Kinney

The astronomy community has at its disposal a large back catalog of public spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys that can be used for the measurement of luminosity functions. Utilizing the back catalog with new photometric surveys to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 S. E. Lake , E. L. Wright , C. -W. Tsai , A. Lam

Star-forming galaxies with strong nebular and collisional emission lines are privileged target galaxies in forthcoming cosmological large galaxy redshift surveys. We use the COSMOS2015 photometric catalog to model galaxy spectral energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Shun Saito , Sylvain de la Torre , Olivier Ilbert , Cédric Dubois , Kiyoto Yabe , Jean Coupon

We present a new near-infrared imaging survey in the four CFHTLS deep fields: the WIRCam Deep Survey (WIRDS). WIRDS comprises extremely deep, high quality (FWHM ~0.6") J, H and K imaging covering a total effective area of 2.1 deg^2 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Bielby , P. Hudelot , H. J. McCracken , O. Ilbert , E. Daddi , O. Le Fèvre , V. Gonzalez-Perez , J. -P. Kneib , C. Marmo , Y. Mellier , M. Salvato , D. B. Sanders , C. J. Willott

We present near-IR spectroscopy of a sample of luminous (Lbol >10^14 Lsun), sub-millimeter-detected, dusty (M_dust~10^9 Msun), radio-quiet QSOs at z~2. We measure the redshift, width, and luminosity of the Halpha line, and the continuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Gustavo Orellana , Neil M. Nagar , Kate G. Isaac , Robert Priddey , Roberto Maiolino , Richard McMahon , Alessandro Marconi , Ernesto Oliva

The HI mass function (HIMF) for galaxies in the local universe is constructed from the results of the Arecibo HI Strip Survey, a blind extragalactic survey in the 21cm line. The survey consists of two strips covering in total 65 square…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Martin Zwaan , Frank Briggs , David Sprayberry , Ertu Sorar

We consider the capabilities of current and future large facilities operating at 2\,mm to 3\,mm wavelength to detect and image the [CII] 158\,$\mu$m line from galaxies into the cosmic "dark ages" ($z \sim 10$ to 20). The [CII] line may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 C. L. Carilli , E. J. Murphy , A. Ferrara , P. Dayal

[abbreviated] We present a census of Ly\alpha\ emission at $z\gtrsim7$ utilizing deep near infrared HST grism spectroscopy from the first six completed clusters of the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). In 24/159…